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| Advice needed on upgrading tonearm for VPI SCOUTMASTER VPI has made so many similar sounding turntables and tonearms it is difficult to give you advice as to what would be an upgrade over what you have. I had the VPI Aries Scout with a 9" JMW arm and currently own the VPI Super Scoutmaster with the 1... | |
| HFT High Frequency Transducer @hififuchs millercarbon was banned from Audiogon years ago. Not sure if he has ever come back under a different ID. | |
| Placement tips for Synergistic Research HTFs @o_holter I recently installed a set of HFT's on my Magnepan 20.7s and I also have a set of 12 UEF panels that I borrowed from a friend. Since it is essentially impossible to do an effective before and after test I am completely open to the argum... | |
| What is the quality and performance level of Fluance turntables?? I owned the Fluance RT85, there was nothing to complain about it except I never thought it sounded good. That just confirmed my bias against vinyl. But I kept listening to friend's systems with good vinyl setups and hearing them as being a lot b... | |
| Your thoughts on best audiophile speakers in $10,000 neighborhood? Used Magnepan 20.7i's can be had for less than $10K and if you have the proper room and amplification I suspect they will outperform the vast majority of speakers at many multiples of that price. | |
| power cord for pass 250.8 @dhite71 I did a tour of the Shunyata facility about a month ago with my local audio club. They were excited about the Gamma and Theta lines but we didn't audition them. We were very impressed with their listening room and the demo of the Altair... | |
| power cord for pass 250.8 @dhite71 I have a NRG Custom Cables 4 outlet distribution box and attached cable. It is very well made and wasn't particularly expensive but I have no idea if it improved the sound quality since I didn't do any careful A/B testing. He isn't taki... | |
| Kind of Blue @simonmoon Thanks for that list. I found some new to me discoveries. | |
| Eversolo DMP-A8 What an interesting question. You can definitely use the digital outs of the A8 to your DAC effectively limiting the use of the A8 to being a streamer. However, you need to specify ONE input and ONE output. So once you specify your digital sour... | |
| Burn your power cables in PROPERLY with Haglabs Frycorder I hate to get in the middle of these pointless arguments where all the people that have never given a product a try deny that it could have any effect and must be snake oil simply because they can’t propose a mechanism for its action but I am goin... | |
| Stereophile review of the $30,000 tekton speakers @thecarpathian Way more than 40 Wilson Audio speakers for sale on Hifishark. I guess all their speakers are crap too? BTW, perhaps you failed to notice that almost all the Tekton's for sale are their low end models? There was exactly 1 Moab, 0 ... | |
| Has anyone heard the BACCH-SP "purifier" 3D audiophile imager? A friend lent me the Bacch SP adio to use for about 6 weeks. It is a fascinating device. It is also hugely overpriced. The Bacch4Mac is a cheaper solution and probably nearly as good for a purely digital flow but it is still fairly expensive. ... | |
| Excellent Solid State or Hybrid Monoblocks Recommendations I am also a fan of the BHK 300 mono blocks. I have used them with Tekton Moabs, Magnepan 3.7s and now Magnepan 20.7i's. I heard a friend's 3.7i's being driven by a D'agostino S300 amp and even though his room wasn't very good his 3.7s sounded a ... | |
| Are there other people like me ? Amazed by their low cost system :) If knowledgeable people aren't coming over to listen to your system and tell you that it is amazing then it probably isn't and you are deluded. | |
| Acoustic Zen Absolute Copper vs. Cardas Clear interconnects @dbt Sorry, I read your post a little too quickly and made the assumption it was about AES cables. I have a VPI Super Scoutmaster turntable, Skyanalog Ref cartridge, Allnic H-3000 phono stage, Berkeley Reference 2 DAC, Audio Research 5SE preamp, ... |